Trigger Mortis takes place just weeks after Goldfinger (one of my favourite Bond movies), with Bond still teamed-up with Pussy Galore. It's set in 1957, features Grand Prix motor racing and the return of SMERSH.

Sounds a definite winner.

And as to James T Kirk's book ('edited' by David A Goodman)... how can you go wrong? The only fan-fiction novel I've ever read was a 'biography' of Kirk - which I still have vague recollections of - but it'll be great to see an official take on this classic character.

Before anyone gets worried, this is the proper (William Shatner) Kirk, rather than the alternate universe one from the recent Star Trek movies.

Hopefully Shatner can be persuaded to do an audiobook of this. I know he read extracts at a convention recently, but I'd happily buy this book again - in a different format - if there was an unabridged audio recording of Captain Kirk reading his own autobiography!